Ilana B. Witten, PhD - Department of Psychology - Princeton University

Yizhar O, Cho SL, Gong S, Ramakrishnan C, Stuber GD, Tye K, Janak P,Deisseroth K. Recombinase-driver rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogeneticapplication to dopamine-mediated reinforcement. Neuron. 2011 Dec8;72(5):721-33.Anikeeva P*, Andalman AS*, Witten IB, Warden MR, Goshen I, Grosenick L,Gunaydin LA, Frank LM, Deisseroth K. Optetrode: a multichannel readout foroptogenetic control in freely moving mice. Nature Neuroscience. 2011 Dec 4.doi: 10.1038/nn.2992.Witten IB*, Lin S*, Brodsky M*, Prakash R*, Diester I, Anikeeva P, Gradinaru V,Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K. Cholinergic interneurons control local circuitactivity and cocaine conditioning. Science. 2010. 330(6011):1677-81.Witten IB, Knudsen PF, Knudsen EI. A dominance hierarchy of auditory spatialcues in barn owls. PLoS One. 2010; 5(4): e10396.Witten IB, Knudsen EI, Sompolinsky H. A Hebbian learning rule mediatesasymmetric plasticity in aligning sensory representations. Journal ofNeurophysiology. 2008; 100(2): 1067-79.Witten IB*, Bergan JF*, Knudsen EI. Dynamic shifts in the owl's auditory spacemap predict moving sound location. Nature Neuroscience. 2006; 9(11):1439-45.Witten IB, Knudsen EI. Why seeing is believing: merging auditory and visualworlds. Neuron. 2005; 48(3):489-96.IntellectualPropertyWitten IB, Deisseroth K, Switchable hedonic and reinforcement behavior.USPTO patent application. Filed 9/23/2010.InvitedSeminarsThe 10 th International Catecholamine Symposium. Monterey, CA. Sept 2012.Cell Biology of Addiction (CSHL) Barcelona, Spain. August 2012.Biophysics and Computation in Neurons and Networks (Princeton) July 2012.National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Baltimore, MD, June 2012.Society of Biological Psychiatry. Philadelphia, PA. May 2012.Cell Biology of Addiction (CSHL) CSH, NY. August 2011.Department of Biology. (Caltech) Pasadena, CA. March 2011.Princeton Neuroscience Institute. (Princeton) Princeton, NJ. March 2011.Departments of Biology & Physics. (Columbia) New York, NY. March 2011.Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology. (Yale) New Haven, CT. Feb2011.Ilana B. Witten650.804.9261 iwitten@princeton.edu

Keck Center & Department of Otolaryngology (UCSF) San Francisco, CA. Feb2011.Neuroscience Department (Columbia Medical School) New York, New York.Feb 2011.Neurobiology Department (Northwestern) Evanston, IL. Feb 2011.Department of Biology (Stanford) Stanford, CA. Jan 2011.Department of Biological Sciences (Carnegie Mellon) Pittsburgh, PA. Jan 2011.McGovern Institute (MIT). Cambridge, MA. Jan 2011.Departments of Neurobiology & Organismal Biology and Anatomy (U Chicago).Chicago, IL. Dec 2010.Mathematical Biology Institute, Workshop on Neural Development (Ohio StateUniversity). Columbus, OH. April 2009.Ear Club (UC Berkeley). Berkeley, CA. Feb 2009.Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (UC Berkeley). Berkeley, CA.March 2008.Keck Center (UCSF). San Francisco,CA. March 2008.Spotlight Presentation at Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CoSyNe).Salt Lake City, UT. Feb 2008.AdvancedCourseworkMethods in Computational Neuroscience (MBL). Woods Hole, MA. Aug 2005.Teaching2012 Instructor. Cellular and Systems Neuroscience (NEU408), Princeton.2006, 2008 Instructor. Mathematical Tools in Neuroscience (NBIO 218),Stanford. Overview for graduate students of mathematical techniquescommonly employed in neuroscience, including Fourier analysis, statistics andinformation theory.2005 Teaching Assistant. Computational Neuroscience (NENS 220), Stanford.Ilana B. Witten650.804.9261 iwitten@princeton.edu